Game-table.



PATENTED NOV. 20, 1906. 7

A. VAN B. BUSH.

GAME TABLE.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 26, 1905.

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ABRAHAM VAN NEW YORK, N. Y. I

GAME-TABLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed August 26, 1905- Seriel No. 275.900.

Patented Nov. 20, 1906.

1'0 (LZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, ABRAHAM VAN BRUNT BUSH, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borou h of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and tate.

described hereinafter and then set forth in the claim. Y

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forminga part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a perspective of the game-table upon which the game is played, the legs of the table being represented as broken away. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal central section of the table shown in Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 is a plan of a tra which constitutes a feature of the table.

eferring more particularly to the parts, 1 represents the body of the table, which is of substantially rectangular form, as shown. This table has a slight inclination from its head 2 toward its foot 3. The 'table is.

- formed with a bottom or floor 4. The side members-5 are extended upwardly, so as to prevent a ball from rolling from the table.

The foot-piece 6 of the table is likewise exwhich extends rearwardly above ,as indicated.

The back-stop 7 and the floor 4 are covered by a continuous piece of suitable cloth 10, such as used in covering pool or billiard tables. The side pieces 5 adjacent to the backstop 7 are extended. upwardly, as indicated at 11, so as to assist inretaining a ball which is used on the table in playing the game.

Near the back-stop 7 I rovide an elevated tray 12, which is prefera ly supported upon in Fig- 1.

extensions 13, formed from the side pieces 5.. This tray 12 has a horizontal floor 14 and is formed with an upwardly-projecting rim 15 at its edge. This tray is preferably substantially semicircular in form, as indicated in Fig. 3. At or near its central point an opening 16 is provided, passing through the bot tom of the tray, and upon the surface of the floor 14.are arranged a plurality of recesses or pockets 17. These pockets are preferably arranged so as to comprise a transverse row 18, extending across the tray near its straight edge 19, and a circumferentially-disposed row 20, lying near the curved edge 21 of the tray. On the central axis of the tray, which alines with the center of the opening 16, I provide a spot or depressio1r22, the purpose of which will appear more fully hereinafter.

At the forward or straight edge 19 of. the tray the bottom 14 thereof is preferably extended upwardly so as to produce a transverse bolster 23, which cooperates with the rim 15 to retain a ball which is thrown into the tray. At the point of intersection of the inner face of this bolster 23 and the bottom 14 I prefer to provide a curve 24, as indicated in Fig. 2.

At the foot 3 of the table the bottom 4 isprovided with three pockets or recesses 25.

These are preferably disposed centrally, the

middle one lying on the central longitudinal axis of the table, the other two pockets being disposed at an equal distance upon 7 I either side.

The body 1 of the table is preferably supported at a suitable height upon legs 26. I

In order to play the game, I provide a red object-ball 27 and a cue-ball 28. The obj ectball 27, when the game is to be played, is placed upon the spot 22, as indicated in Fig. 1. The cue-ball 28 is-then projected, preferably by means of a cue, from a position at the foot of the'table, such as that indicated In this way the ball 28 is struck violently, so as to move at a high velocity in the direction of the bolster 7. When it arrives at this point, it runs up the incline or curve 8 and is projected from the inclined surface 9 into the air above the tray 12, upon which it falls. The player should aim to strike the object-ball 27 with the cue-ball in this way and dislodge it from the spot. The

two balls, which are then in the tray, move I referred to above. They may, however, fall throu h the opening '16 onto the body of the table elow, m which case they will ravitate toward the foot of the table, a they may come to rest in one of the pockets 25. In order to guidethe'player as tothe direc-' tion in which heshoul'd aim, I refer to provide the u per edge of the bac -stop 7 with inlaid IHBIES or diamonds 29, such as used on pool-tables fora similar purpose. Thesediamonds are referably three in number, the Inidde one eing disposed centrally and in alinement with the o ening 1 6. Theother diamonds are pref-era ly located. at an. equal distance on each side of-the central one and are preferably in alinement with theextreme outermost pockets of the row 18..

The players may play alternately, or each player mavplay a number of times in sue-- termediate pockets count fiiiteen, as indicated. Ofthe pockets 25 the central one counts twenty, while the side pockets count ten. The opening 16 in the tray counts forty when a ball'dropsi through it to the bod of the table below.

red or object ball 27'when settling in a pocket shall count double the value of that pocket. If the cue-ball 28 settles in any pocket, it simplyadds to the score the value of that pocket. As stated, when either ball en counting the score, I prefer that the falls through the opening 16 the value (forty) of that opening is added to the score. In

case the score between two players'is a tie I- thus described my invention, I

pockets adapted to receive said balland an I opening through which said ball mav fall.

In testimony whereof 1' have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ABRAHAM VAN BRUNT BUSH. Witnesses: i I

WM. H. HE m, EDWARD Vo dkL. 

